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POLITICS
Is Congress back to pre-2004 agenda ?
When UPA took power in 2004 the first thing it did was to regulate prices of petroleum products which the NDA had set free for the markets. Now at the end of its term the government is turning back to NDA's policies to set the wobbling economy in order.

Kayani likely to join politics?
Whispers in the Pakistan and MEA are that General Parvez Ashraf Kayani is likely to join active politics when his term as a Chief of Pakistan Army gets over in September 2013.

Sangma creates problem for Congress ?
The Assembly elections in Meghalaya State have been announced. PA Sangma is strong due to the helping hand of the local tribals and the Church. There is a whispers in the corridor that he is going to dame the Congress.

BUREAUCRACY

Chhiber and Mohanty; front runners for Secretary, Road Transport & Highways?
Whispers in the corridors of power have it that Vijay Chhiber and Dr PK Mohanty are the front runners to make it as the successor of Anil Kumar Upadhyay, Secretary, Road Transport & Highways. Chhiber, a 1978 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre whereas Mohanty, a 1979 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, is Additional Secretary & Mission Director, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

1979 batch IAS get Secretary Rank in GoI
All the empanelled 1979 batch IAS officers have been promoted as Special Secretary in the Government of India.
(We said this on January 14 , 2013)

Malay Srivastava poised to be ED, ITPO
Malay Srivastava is being appointed as the Executive Director of India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO). Malay, a 1990 batch IAS officer of MP cadre, is also a Gold medalist in Mechanical engineering. At present, he is Joint Secretary, Department of Telecom.

Ram Prasad Rao to be CVO, NTPC
M Ram Prasad Rao is being tipped to be new CVO of the NTPC. He is a 1986 batch IFS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ms Narendra is new Joint DGCA
Ms S Narendra has taken over as Joint Director General (Joint Secretary Level) in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) .She is a 1980 batch CSS officer.
(We said this on November 6, 2012)

Govt servants who secured jobs on fake caste certificate to be terminated
The Government of India has decided to terminate the government servants who succeeded in getting jobs on fake/false information and caste certificates. A circular has been issued in this respect.

Prasad to be JS, Environment ?
Ravi Shankar Prasad is being tipped to be Joint Secretary, Forests and Environment in the Government of India. He is a 1990 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Is Petroleum Minister annoyed with DGH ?
If insiders are to be believed Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily is annoyed these days with Director General, Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) R N Choubey.

Singh is new Additional Secretary, CVC
Sanjeev Prasad Narain Singh has been appointed as Additional Secretary (Joint Secretary level) in the Central Vigilance Commission . He is a1986 batch IDAS officer.

Sarkar to be Chief Secretary of Jharkhand ?
If all goes well, A K Sarkar will be new Chief Secretary of Jharkhand. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer.

Naresh Prabhu posted as Joint Secretary, Health Research in GoI
Naresh Prabhu has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Health Research (newly created post in Health Ministry). He is a 1984 batch IFS officer of Kerala cadre.

Shambhu Kallolikar posted as Joint Secretary, Pharmaceuticals in GoI
Shambhu Kallolikar has been deputed as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Pharmaceuticals in Government of India. He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Sudhanshu Shekhar Misra empanelled as Joint Secretary in GoI
Sudhanshu Shekhar Misra has been empanelled for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent in Government of India. He is a 1985 batch officer of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS).

K S Dhatwalia posted as ADG, NSD, AIR, New Delhi
K S Dhatwalia, ADG, (M&C), PIB, New Delhi, has been transferred and posted as ADG, NSD, AIR, New Delhi. He is an Indian Information Service (IIS) officer.

Brijesh Mehrotra is new CPR, Bihar
Brijesh Mehrotra has taken over as new Commissioner, Public Relations in Bihar. He is a 1989 batch IAS officer.

Four Custom officers shifted
Four officers in the grade of Additional/Joint/Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise have been transferred and posted at different places. Accordingly, Rajendra Kumar-II has been shifted as OSD, Legal, Chennai Customs while Sachin Jain will now be OSD TRU-II, DG System, Delhi and Prasad Adelli is being transferred to Hyderabad CX zone. Besides, Ranjan Prakash has been shifted to Mumbai-I CX.

Three IAS officers shifted in Tamil Nadu
Three officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been transferred in Tamil Nadu. Accordingly, T P Rajesh has been posted as Collector, Krishnagiri while C Samayamoorthy will now be Collector, Tirunelveli and Dr R Selvaraj was made Director of Town Panchayats.

4 CSS officers transferred in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as four officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) have been transferred in Government of India. Accordingly, R K Gupta has been shifted as Director, Ministery of DoNER while Rajiv Manjhi is being made as Director, Health & Family Welfare and A Asholi Chalai and Umesh Kumar Tiwari will now be Directors, DoPT.

1988 batch IAS is now PS in UP (UPDATED)
Six 1988 batch IAS officers Mssrs Navneet Sehgal,Rajan Shukla,Rajneesh Dube,Alok One, Manoj Kumar Singh and V Venktesh have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Uttar Pradesh.

Two IAS officers get fresh assignments in Haryana (UPDATED)
Two officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) have been given new assignments in Haryana. Accordingly, Amit Kumar Agarwal (2003) has been assigned additional charge of Managing Director, DHBVN, Hisar while Nikhil Gajraj (2008) will now be Administrator, HUDA Rohtak in Haryana.

Dalip Singh is now Additional Secretary Steel (UPDATED)
Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Steel Dalip Singh has been elevated as Additional Secretary. He is 1982 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Dharmendra is new JS Urban Development (UPDATED)
Dharmendra has been appointed new Joint Secretary Urban Development in the Government of India. He is 1989 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Ayyangar is now JS Sports (UPDATED)
Dr G S G Ayyangar has been appointed Joint Secretary Sports in the Government of India. He is 1987 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Gupta is CVO MMTC (UPDATED)
A K Gupta has been appointed CVO of the MMTC. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Shyam Kapoor is now Joint Secretary, Social Justice in GoI (UPDATED)
Shyam Kapoor has been appointed as Joint Secretary, Social Justice and Empowerment in Government of India. He is a Central Secretariat Service (CSS) officer.

96 CSS officers shifted to various Ministries in GoI (UPDATED)
As many as 96 officers of Central Secretariat Service (CSS) working at Under Secretary level have been transferred and posted to various Ministries in Government of India. The officers include: Shipra Roy has been shifted to Women & Child Development; Pradeep Kumar Singh to Rural Development; Sudeep Kohli to Statistics & Programme Implementation; S K chhikara to Home Affairs; G C Yadav to Home Affairs; K A Sathia Sulochana to Telecom; Dinesh Kumar Veram to UPSC; G Muthuraja to Secondary & Higher Education; Krishan Kumar to Home Affairs; R C Tully to Secondary & Higher Education; Sumita Das Gupta to Food & PD; Manjit Singh Nayar to Social Justice & Empowerment; Ravi Katyal to Food & PD; Ajay Saxena to Tourism; Raj Kumar to New & Renewable Energy Sources; A M Manichan to Industrial Policy and promotion; G S Arora to Information & Broadcasting; Chanan Ram to Defence; R Prem Anand to Health& Family Welfare; Shivani Dutt to Panchayat Raj; Amrik Singh to Home Affairs; S Gopal Krishna to Secondary & Higher Education; Din Dayal Maheshwari to UPSC; Suresh Kumar Sharma to Health & Family Welfare; S M Gupta to Expenditure; Renu Saxena to Scientific & Industrial Research; Trilok Kumar Gulati to UPSC; Rina Dutta Guha to Scientific & Industrial Research; Anil Kumar to Home Affairs; Rajenddra Kalwani to Commerce; Sushil Kumar to Defence; A R chamoli to Water Resources; Geeta Arora to Agriculture& cooperation; Yatendra Kumar to Commerce; V V Johnson to Commerce (Supply); Padma Saxena to Food & PD; Arvind Mukherjee to Steel; Chander Mohan Bhatia to Secondary & Higher Education; M K Chowdhary to Health & Family Welfare; Ajay Kumar Sumbly to Power; Sunil Madan to Commerce; Ashish Dutta to Science & Technology; Meera K Raman to Steel; P K Srivastava to Scientific & Industrial Research; Sudershan Mendiratta to Water Resources; Braja Kishore Pati to Urban Development; T S Rautela to Agricultural Research & Education; P Bhardwaj to Women & Child Development; Vataila Rungsung to Social Justice & Empowerment; Ajay Joshi to Power; Ganesh Dutta Sharma to Steel; vijay Gopal Mangal to Petroleum & Natural Gas; Pramod Chand to Social Justice & Empowerment; Anil Kumar Joshi to Legal Affairs; P K Banerjee to Commerce; Deepak Israni to Civil Aviation; Arunoday Goswami to Personnel & Training; Meera Sekhar to UPSC; Jasbir Singh to Home Affairs; vinod Kumar Nayyar to Secondary & Higher Education; Bhaskar Bandyopadhayay to Home Affairs;P N Shukla to Agriculture & Cooperation; Davindera Pal Singh to Secondary & Higher Education; Rajiv Mahendru to Food & PD; sushma Jain to Urban Development; Gopal Krishna Baurai to Financial Services; Umesh Pande to Water Resources; P Sasi Kumar to Secondary & Higher Education; E V Thomas to Urban Development; K N Mishra to Economic Affairs; Ram prakash Puri to UPSC; T L Georgekutty to UPSC; Y Vijayan to Urban Development; Kishori Raman Sharma to Expenditure; G Vaidheeswaran to Statistics & Programme Implementation; Harihar Mishra to Agricultural Research and Education; Surendra Kumar Gupta to Scientific & Industrial Research; Praveen Gupta to Informatioin & Broadcasting; Suresh Sharma to Food& PD; Irene Cherian to Labour; Samita Arora to Commerce; S Sampath Kumari to Shipping; Pushpa Bisht to Industrial Policy and Promotion; Achyuta Nanda to Petroleum & Natural Gas; K K Jha to Science & Technology; Manjula Saxena to Industrial Policy and Promotion; Moola Ram Meena to Mines; T R Prasad to information & Broadcasting; Kanu Gopal Mohanta to Defence; Sanjeev Kumar to Information & Broadcasting; A K Agarwal to UPSC; Anand Hari Agarwal to Corporate Affairs; Jeetendra Chadha to Legislative Department; Ambrish Kumar to Petroleum & Natural Gas and Fazal Mahmood has been shifted to Industrial Policy and Promotion.

Syamal Kumar Sarkar promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Syamal Kumar Sarkar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training till his taking over as Secretary, Water Resources. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre.

Rajiv Gupta promoted in-situ to Secretary rank (UPDATED)
Rajiv Gupta, Managing Director, NAFED under Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, has been promoted in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttarakhand cadre.

Rajiv Takru promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Rajiv Takru has been promoted (on in-situ basis), as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Department of Health and Family Welfare and thereafter, as Officer on Special Duty, Department of Financial Services in the rank and pay of Secretary till his taking over as Secretary (Financial Services). He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Ravi Mathur promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Ravi Mathur has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment till his taking over as Secretary (Disinvestment). He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Sudhir Bhargava promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Sudhir Bhargava has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Prasanna Kumar Mohanty promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Prasanna Kumar Mohanty has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Mission Director, JNNURM under the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre.

Siraj Hussain promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Siraj Hussain has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ms Zohra Chatterji promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Ms Zohra Chatterji has been promoted (on in-situ basis)as Special Secretary, Ministry of Coal. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Nilanjan Sanyal promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Nilanjan Sanyal has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

S Machendranathan promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
S Machendranathan has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Civil Aviation. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.

Rajan S Katoch promoted in-situ to Secretary rank (UPDATED)
Rajan S Katoch has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Director of Enforcement, Directorate of Enforcement under the Department of Revenue in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Ravindra Singh promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Ravindra Singh has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Culture. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Ms Gauri Kumar promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Ms Gauri Kumar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Mines in the rank and pay of Secretary. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Anup Kumar Thakur promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Anup Kumar Thakur has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

Afzal Amanullah promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Afzal Amanullah has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

G Mohan Kumar promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
G Mohan Kumar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

L C Goyal promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
L C Goyal has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

E K Bharat Bhushan promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
E K Bharat Bhushan has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Steel. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre.

Ms Vandana Kumari Jena promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Ms Vandana Kumari Jena has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Principal Adviser, Planning Commission, in the rank and pay of Secretary. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre.

Bimal Julka promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Bimal Julka has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of External Affairs. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Lalit K Panwar promoted in-situ to Secretary rank (UPDATED)
Lalit K Panwar has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Vice-Chairman & Managing Director, ITDC under Ministry of Tourism in the rank and pay of Secretary. He is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

Ms Meera Mehrishi promoted in-situ as Special Secretary (UPDATED)
Ms Meera Mehrishi has been promoted (on in-situ basis) as Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests in the pay of Secretary. She is a 1979 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre.

CORPORATE

Are private players behind diesel price decontrol ?
It is understood that private players who have invested in petrol pumps, that have been running dry because of artificial low pricing, are calling the shots on diesel price hike. Will this move propel private players to reopen their outlets ?

Gupta promoted as President & CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd
HCL Technologies Ltd has promoted Anant Gupta, President and Chief Operating Officer to the rank of President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company.

Nayar to continue as Vice Chairman and Joint MD, HCL Technologies Ltd
Vineet Nayar to continue as the Vice Chairman and Joint Managing Director of HCL Technologies Ltd upto the month of July 2013 . Thereafter he will continue as Vice Chairman in the company.

Bijapurkar ceases to be Director, Axis Bank Ltd
Ms Rama Bijapurkar has ceased to be Director on the Board of Directors of Axis Bank Ltd on expiry of her tenure.

Bakshi appointed Additional Director, Cinemax India Ltd
Cinemax India Ltd has appointed Vikram Bakshi as an Additional Independent Director of the company with immediate effect.

Devil ceases to be Director, Development Credit Bank Ltd
Ms Nasim Devil has ceased to be a Director on the Board of Directors of Development Credit Bank Ltd.

Potdar ceases to be Independent Director, Geodesic Ltd
Nitin Potdar has resigned as Independent Director of Geodesic Ltd due to personal reasons.

Mishra appointed Company Secretary, Sanwaria Agro Oils Ltd
Anurag Mishra has been appointed as Company Secretary of Sanwaria Agro Oils Ltd.

Narayanan appointed Director, Infotech Enterprises Ltd
Shankar Narayanan has been appointed as Director on the Board of Directors of Infotech Enterprises Ltd.

Raman appointed Director, Celebrity Fashions Ltd
Celebrity Fashions Ltd has appointed PS Raman as an Additional Director of the company with immediate effect.

Verma has been appointed as Director of Celebrity Fashions
SC Verma has been appointed as director of Celebrity Fashions.

Gupta appointed as CEO of HCL Technologies
Anant Gupta has been appointed as CEO of HCL Technologies.

Raman quits Shivalik Bimetal Controls
PS Raman has resigned as Director of Shivalik Bimetal Controls.

Adarkar appointed MD of Ipsos InnoQuest India

Amit Adarkar has been appointed Managing Director at Ipsos InnoQuest India. He has been in the research industry for over 20 years and has worked for organisations including Org-Marg.

Gautam Chikermane quits Hindustan Times

Gautam Chikermane, Executive Editor (Business), Hindustan Times has quit the organisation after a stint of four and a half years and eight months. He is currently working as a columnist with Inc and also as Director, Financial Planning, Standards Board India."

Akbaraly is new Zonal Manager, CBI in Chennai
B Akbaraly has taken over as the Zonal Manager of Central Bank of India,(CBI) Chennai Zone.

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Time has come to wind up CGEWHO

I had applied for CGEWHO Visakhapatnam scheme in August 2008. After a gap of 4 years, they have closed the scheme on the ground of poor response. The fact is that no advertisement was inserted in any newspapers to get response from the govt. servants and general public. They are returning me the money with 7% interest whereas I had taken withdrawal from GPF loosing 9% interest. The attitude of the people in CGEWHO is indifferent. It is high time Govt. should close down this organisation as private organisations are providing better housing than CGEWHO.

Ch Govind Rao

Pathetic DoPT

It is shocking to learn that DoPT which is the god mother on service matters can be so pathetic and inhuman in its approach and stonewall the implementation of a Cabinet decision for such a long time and does not seem to be answerable to anybody. MoS (PP) who is also MoS(PMO) should call for explanation of his officers for delinquency in non implementation of this Cabinet decision. As far as I know, CSSS cadre has suffered and stagnated in a particular scale for over 22 to 16 years as no promotion avenues/ vacancies were available to promote them despite residency period being eight years only. This cadre was strangulated for 22 years for promotion. Since on the recommendation of the 6th CPC, Cabinet has approved implementation of 15% posts of PPS and Sr. PPS to be operated at the level of Sr. PPS/PSO, what audacity these DoPT babus have to not implement this Cabinet Decision. First of all, DoPT should immediately implement this decision and notify the posts as this cadre has stagnated for three times of their residency period in particular scale immediate relaxation needs to be given to implement the decision. Both decisions were on the extreme side as they were not promoted due to non availability of posts for 22 years and when posts are available, one is expecting of completion of residency period. DoPT needs to answer a lot as its behaviour does not seems to match guardian of a model employer.

Pravin

Unholy alliance in Pakistan

Your readers will, perhaps, know and remember Husain Haqqani. He was , till recently, Pakistan's Ambassador in the U.S.A. In 2005, he had written a book titled "Pakistan:Between Mosque and Military". He had made a copious commentary on the military, mulla nexus in Pakistan to keep democratically elected governments out of power. Haqqani had been an aid of late Benazir Bhutto when she was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Later, he moved to the U.S. The Zardari regime appointed him Ambassador to the U.S. That was not taken kindly by the Military establishment who was on the look out for getting the Haqqani thorn out of the way. And the Army did conspire to have him shunted out with the willing helping hand of the judiciary. The Army has now found an ally in the judiciary to weaken the democratic fabric of the country. However, that alone was not enough to destabilise the government. The army also needed an ally in the street to arouse the masses. Who could be better than a mulla? The Army found one in Qadri, brought him from Canada to Pakistan and have now let him loose in the electoral ring on the eve of elections. Haqqani is proved right once again on the unholy alliance between the Military and the Mosque. It remains to be seen whether the politicians in Pakistan, cutting across party lines, will unite to defeat the autocratic and fundamentalist forces there. This is the last hope for Pakistan because hereafter, democracy may never return in that country.

Satya Singal

Outstanding service

The present Finance Secrtary DK Mittal has done an outstanding service to the Country in accelerating the pace of Financial Inclusion and activating the Banks for expanding the outreach. Let the incoming Secretary Rajeeva create new waves in the Banking Industry for taking it to the last mile line in letter and spirit.

Vithal Rao Sonar